The Sun. — London, England, 1818-01-07 00:00:00

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS. FOR THE SUN. LErfElt VIII. MR. EDITOR ) —A person tinder the signature of : • .'Cot.b6iia:ted.:conyeyatery; defends a body of , . men, which, if . be knowi them,- he too much honours ; and as he spea ; 4,,bk.4k,Old.liarrister with becoming reshect,_Lh is entitled to notice. From the whole of his Letter, he appe;ss the friend of all w 11d-be Conveyancers, and deserves their thanks. It he- be not one of them, he may exclaim,— " La the galled jade wince, my withers are unweung." f he be, and bath stolen into the practice of, but not the 'profession, shielding himself under a stamp act; and the delusive admission into one of — the four Inns of Court, he will be unworthy of any other answer than what is contained in the former papers of the Old Barrister, who had only • in his mind a LEARNED and a LAWYER-LIKE Con veyancer, as an exception against all pretenders and usurpers in general. If be knew any thing of proceedings in equity, be would haie answered them line by line, but smarting under their truth, and Wanting mathematical precision, lie hovers round the circle, is blind to the point, and flies oil at a tangent. He has taken up the cudgels for 200 bise Conveyancers, and the great butt of his censure is the whole fraternity of Attornies, xvlio censure them as interlopers by a side-wind. Its justifying the Certificated-men, who range at large, like banki:upts; with a tin box in their poc kets, and' a'r'e no more qualified for lawyers than - a poacher is to kill or steal hares and partridges, under the pretext of a game licence, he looses sight of those black sheep among them, on whom, as a gentleman, and regular bred man, be would otherwise look down with scorn. Let him read the Old Barriiter's Letters with attention, and he will see that duly qualified men are not his ob jects. Money • brokers, annuity-mongers, auctioneers, builders, clerks, broken tradesmen, jail birds, and the whole army of depredators, are the men, who, from the very nature of their station and education, are marked out for exclusion ; not men of learning, who come from a college or a school, into the profession as articled clerks, students of law, and afterwards practisers under • the bar. The Certificated Conveyancer, in defending a bad cause, has totally mistaken the Old Barrister, in support of a good one ; and the dignity of the most exalt ed.science in the affairs of men ; a dignity not to be levelled into a trade. He has not said that any one is an able or an honest man, because he is an Attorney, any [sore than his being born in a stable would make him a horse; or that a .stamp certificate, or an entrance in Gray's Inn, would make a man a wise one or a conjurer. He only says, that no person should class in the profes sion of the law, without a regular process to it ; none should infringe upon or disgrace rt, by their blotted characters, and pitiable ignorance ; and none derive a profit or a consequence from it by their insufficiency (the were trick track business of scriveners, rent and tar-gatherers only excepted.) The cause is the Attorney's not the Barrister's, or those illastriOus Conveyancers under the bar, who may come to it when they please. The Cer tificate Gentleman will, therefore, do.well to read the old Barrister over again, when he will find all that he 118 s written, visibly under fears and alarms, recoil on himself ; and.that it is fully answered in every sense Of the word. No other opponent will be noticed by AN OLD BARRISTER. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR,---A Writer in The Times of yes terday, under the signature of 1. B. has thought fit to draw the public attention to the cases of the distressed Seamen who are now to be found about the streets in such numbers. With his reasoning and statements I have no disposition to interfere. He leas himself sufficiently established the prompt ness with which Government affords relief in all cases where the applicant has any just claim, al . though, when he proposes that Offices should be established to pay the Pensioners weekly (some of them would receive only three or four shillings, a week), I suspect that he is himself a candidate for a place—as he must know, that if this were done, discharged Soldiers would have equal claims to t h e weekly allowance. Now there are 70,000 Seamen and Marines at present on the Pension List, and probably twice as many Soldiers ; there fore .l. B. undoubtedly anticipates that five hun dred Clerks, all learned and zealous: men -rlike himself, would be necessary to Make the pay- But leaving this point to you, Mr. Editor, at your leisure, I at present complain„of the at i'aek Which has been 'made by Itti:s mischievous meddler on a brave'Officer who is absent on his Country-s service, and unable to peak for him self. Captain DACRBS is accused of. having, by, ments. his neglect, exposed the seaman . Conolly to•the . string of calamities which I. B. enumerates. The' Writer, howeviy, states;' - -that Conolly was the ship's armourer- - -(be is therifore a smith by trade, and might have worked if be chose)—and Was discharged from the Tiber without a pension, al though he was fully entitled to one. I believe none of your Readers ever heard that it was the Captain's business to procure a pension for every man he discharges. Sailors are [not very often _ignorant of their own rights, and know very well where and how to apply for redress. But the attack was made to introduce the malicious re mark, that Captain DACRES had the honour of striking the flag of the Guerriere. He did so; and had I. B. been present with him on that occasion, I have no doubt but that be would have quaked within his skin, and wished the flag and the Captain both at the bottom of the sea, for not striking sooner, by an hour, than he did. But I. B. might have added what he could ' have found in The Times of the 29th October, 1812,—that the gallant Officer in question, whose name has been so wantonly dragged forward on this. occasion, was honourably acquitted of all blame by a Court- Martial composed of British Officers, jealous of the national honour, and prompt to punish who ever, through misconduct or want of effort, might have brought disgrace on his Majesty's flag. Let them, then, speak for Captain DACRES. They ate all known to fame—Vice-Admiral Sir HERBERT SAWYER, Captains bit' JOHN BeRESFORD, and Sir PHILIP BROKE, Captain JOHN BASTARD, and several others. What say they when sitting in judgment on Captain DACREs—his life and honour in their hands—and they sworn to do im partial justice by him and the Crown ? Sir, they answer, "That the surrender of the Goer . " riere was proper, in order to preserve the lives " of her valuable remaining crew, and that her " being in that lamentable situation was from the " accident of her masts going, the enemy being " also so greatly superior in guns and men. They " did therefore unanimously and honourably ac " quit the said Captain DACRES, his Officers, and . the company of his Majesty's late ship Guer- ‘• riere." That a blockhead shot►ld delight in seeing his vapid nonsense in pint is too common io be won dered at, But that a respectable Paper should, like certain Examiners of the present day, lend their columns to work mischief, and print before .they examine, is to me, fown, very surprising. I am, Sir, Your very humble SerVant, NAUTILUS. THZATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROTA L, Ditu KY-LA rslE.—Lilliptlt. After which, The Tale of Mystery: To which was added, Harlequin's Vision. TricaritE ItoYaL, COVENT-GA RDENT--Guy Mannering Henry Bertram, Mr. Brahani; Lucy Bertram, Miss Stephens. Af ter which, Harlequin Gulliver. MAILS ARRIVED-3 Waterford. Due—t Lisbon, 3 Gotteuburgh, 1 Hamburg!), 1 Waterfoid. ?RICE 01 THIS HAY A•r T S FUCKS tv fr,Lv 1.1 o'CLUCK. ...... _ Bank Stock 2901 i Bank L. Ann.... 20 13-16ths i 3 per Cent: Red.—Film-nil India 80nd5...: 98s. 995. pr. 8 per Ct. Cons. 81141 801 81/ Exch. Bills l7s. 225. pr. 4 per Cents , 9841111 Cons. for Account-821 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. 106411 E. E TON, Stock-Broker, :;ornhiil, and Lombard-street. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'fo-MORROW. Morning, 34 minutes after 3. I Evening, 59 minutes after 3. THE SUN. 30LE31 QUIS DICERE FAI,SUM AUDEAT LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1818. The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. This morning we received Boston Papers to the 30th of November ; they contain nothing later from the Spanish Main than has previously been received. (From the New York Advocate of Dee. 2.) FROM CAYENNE.—Captain JOHNSON, of the brig Joseph, who arrived at Marblehead on the 2Gth inst., in. 42 (lays, from Cayenne, states, that there had been more sickness at that place during the season than had ever been known there before. The sickness had begun to subside when the Joseph sailed. Capt. JOHNSON gives the follow. ing as the state of the Markets : Flour 14 dollars per barrel ; Tobacco Leaf 20; Beef 12 do., and of very good sort. SAVANNAH, Nov. 14.—Furthei - accounts from Milledgeville•strengthen the report of an adjourn ment of the Legislature of this State to March next. A Gentleman just arrived states, that much sickneis preyailed among the Members ; many were extrenely ill. PEDRO GUALL is stated, in the Aurora, to have been appointed Governor of Amelia Island, and to have touched at St. Mary's '; but finding the affairs in so had a situation, he had sailed for the Spa- ',kb Alain. Ile was a man of great eminence among the Patriots. (From the Calcutta Gazette of Aug. 28.) The Pindaries are still ranging the• country, and committing the most horrid excesses among the peasants, by the indiscriminate butchery of men, women, _and children, and bearing the lat ter in triumph on their spikes. There has been an Hindoo College opened at Calcutta, which promises - immense advantages to science and humanity : it has English, Native, and Persian teachers. Advices of a very late date have been received at this Office, which states, that the Patriots were i❑ possession of the whole of Chili. An Officer of Buenos Ayres has contradicted the Report, that his Government had solicited a Foreign prince to reign over them, and .that the Republic of Silver River is sufficiently competent to protect its independence, without assistance from any quarter. Letters 'received from. New Orleans of the 26th of November, at Boston, state, that the fever had considerably abated ; but at Natchez it still continued, and from 20 to 25 persons were dying daily. The crops of Cotton at New Orleans are much as they were last year, probably 10,000 bales more than last crop ; Sugar crops look extremely well, but the season has, been so wet, that pro bably not so much sugar will be made as last year. A letter from Bermuda, Nov. 26, in The Na tional Advocate of Dec. 2., gives the following prices of the Markets at St. George's :--Flonr, 15 to 14 dollars ; Tobacco, 10 ; Rum,. 65 to 70 cents per gallon ; Molasses, 48 to 50 ; Sugar, 9 to 10 dollars per cwt. ; .Coffee, 18 dollari, and very scarce. The Charge upon the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ending the sth instant, is 13,200,000/. There is a peculiar and a melancholy interest in the present day. It is the Anniversary of the Birth of our late departed .Princess-CHARLOTTE. Twenty-two years ago, the commencement of her existence diffused joy all over the Empire, as it gave StippOrr to that August_Roule rto.whom we are in a great degree indebted for the preservation. of our happy Establishment in Church and State. The progress of her life, and . the gradual expan sion of her virtues and her talents, increased the hopes of the People, and, proMised'a future Sovereign, who was likely to confirm their rights, improve their happiness, and aug ment the lustre of the . British Crown. Alas these hopes are at an end, and the only consola tion arising from the melancholy loss, is the con sideration, that her , virtues are gone to receive their reward in a better world, and. that they will for ever be recorded in the annals of our country. We perceive .that the Admirers of BLASPIIENIN, and the Promoters Of SEDITION, are actively em ployed in, circulating the Subscription for Mr. HONE over the country. We are glad that they have adopted this course, as it will develope their characters to the people at large. Hence, such of Mr. HoNE's suppOrters as may be of rank suf ficient to be candidates fo r Parliamentary dis tinction will afford a good teat of their principles, and enable the Constituent Body to judge whe ther it will be proper to commit the interests of THE CHURCH and STARE to those who patronize PROFANENESS and abet the views of FACTION. The dreadful Iprioi of the Act for SUSPENDING . , THE tIABE4SC6EPUE, about which there has been so much declamation, are now confined to three 'individuals ;.-inif these three are, yaw/tory Pri soners, so great are the' terrors of imprison ment !—Yes, voluntary Prisoners, merely because they refuse to enter into their own undertaking, no sureties being required for their future appear ance. These three Patriots are the two men who made such a elarriour towards the end of the last Session about their not being allowed .to disturb the Surrey Prison with their flutes, and a fellow of the name of Benbow from Lancashire. THE PITT CLos.—A General Meeting of The Committee of This Club was held on Monday last, when the Monthly Dinners for this Spring were fixed for thelast Thursday in February, and the last Thursday in April, at the Albion Tavern. The friends of Mr. (;RACKENTHORPS, the New Candidate for Westmoreland, have not been so successful in their canvass as they expected, from the doubts which are entertained-of that Gentle man's sentiments on The Popery Question ; the great body of the Freeholders in that County be ing steady and warm Supporters of " The Pro testant Ascendancy." Great perplexity prevails at Rochester as to the future Representation of that City. It has been said that the present Members will not be re turned again —we, however, think that one of them is certain of it. Mr. WETHERELL, the King's Counsel, is the new Candidate for the City of Hereford. The present canvass for Hythe is the keenest the Electors have known for many years. The four Candidates have at different intervals beat the ground—and they all seem confident of suc cess. PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, S. 5' • A circumstance took place here the other nigh, which thews that there still exists a great enmity ni l the part of Some of the French towards the English' As Captain B. was walking in the Rue de la Pail' he felt himself jostled by a man, and on turning round to demand what he meant by it, was lin' mediately struck: , A scuffle ensued, which ended in Captain B: challenging the Frenchman, Wi' ° wished to fight with swords (being a remarkablY ,good swordsman) ; Captain B. replied, "that be would fight him with pistols, and not. wit h swords." The other exclaimed, " Why do you wear a sword then if you don't knoW how to use it ?" They exchanged cards; but it appeared next morning that •lie Frenchman had given 0 13 a false address, and was no where to be found.--' After a little time, it was discovered that he batl decamped to his Regiment, which was quartere d at some distance from Paris. Having now 130 excuse to avoid the combat, be returned to Paris, and a meeting accordingly took place last MondaP Captain B. wounded his antagonist in the'groins and he is now dangeroUsly ill of his wound.--"' Captain B. shewed the greatest firmness through' out, and the whole affair reflects the highest ere' dit upon him. It is to be hoped that this wil l put a stop to those frequent insults which 813 Englishman but too often meets with is Paris from disaffected individuals. SHIP NEWS. DARTMOUTH, JAN. s.—Arrived off this port the schooner Moira, of Ilfracombe, from Bristol, lost from Plymouth, bound to Weymouth, with a ge" neral-eargo, having lost her fore-mast and both topmasts in a severe gale from the S. W. la st night ; the pilots will bring her in here, if the weather permits it, otherwise they will endeavour to make Torbay. WHITEY, Jaw. s.—Arrived here yesterday the Perseverance, of Wakefield ; she was blown past the.Humber in a gale and thick weather, and on entering the harbour she sustained much damage , ;and but fin the prompt assistance of the people on the Pier, and three boats, she must have bee* lost : she was got into the harbou'r with diffi" culty, after leaving an anchor and cable on the Bar. SHEERNESS, JAI4. 6.—The Hibernia, of Wee" ford, which _was on shore on the.Blythel l4 has been got off, and has proceeded to ,London• PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Sailed the CanadS, MOORS, for London. DEAL, JAN. 6.—Arriv e d the Quest transport from Dover to Chatham ; and a brig (transport , No. 274,) has passed through froth the Westward to the Northward.—Came down from the Rivet the George HI., FISHER, for Calcutta, and II trepid, JOHNSON, for Valparaiso and Bengal; Owen, for Jamaica ; Marianna, MoottE, rot Smyrna; Hope, SALMON, for St. Thomas's'; Charles, -WEST, for 'Savannah ; WETHERALL, for Hayti ; Cosmopolite, BARK.Bse for Genoa ; Ceres, MATTLIEWS, for Jamaica. FALMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Sailed the Active . 10 41 Hind Revenue cutters on a cruise. GRAVESEND, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Hester , Wilkinson, from Jersey, and Olive Branch , Hayes, from Demerara.—Sailed the Sir Josepia Banks for Jamaica, and Moreland, Hall, for : 1 1 o i t e t s o ; B a a r r l b ß a b e and the Eleanor, Stephens , for Ostend. b l f e a s s t ,PJa Packet , bßb R a lston, for for B B al a f r a b st; Barba' REVENUE. We received the following Official Article too late to insert it in our First Impression yesterday' and in the Second we bad only time to insert the Quarters. We now present it complete as we yesterday received it, from authority, and we trust that it will gratify every true friend to the Country : ABSTRACT OF THE NET.PEODUCE OF THE REVENVS IN THE YEARS AND QUARTERS ENDED STH JAIL• 1817 AND 1818. Qrs. ended sth Jan. 1817. 1818. R, 58,G48 4,695,07 4 r,566,532 319,000 2,260,017 353,604 255,318 11,914,373 558 ,99 3 36,441 595,434 12,509,807 768,157 389,048 1,157,205 13,667,012 Yars ended sth Jan 1817. I 1818. Customs Excise Stamps 5,969,721 Post;Office 1,426,000 Assessed Taxes 5,873,322 Land Taxes Miscellaneous Unappropriated War Duties 6,839,975 1 6,370,854 6,337,4211 1,338,000 1 6,147,529 1,163,320 492,8'n 1,062,073 Total Consoli dated Fund —37,773,3251, A nuual Duties to pay off Bills. Customs Excise 534,124 Pensions, &c 4,016 Total Annual Duties Permanent and Annual Duties 40,704,670 WAR TAXES. Customs Excise.. Property Total War Taxes 16,656,0,24 [39,782,044 2,871,505 2.58,131-1 3,129,631 142,911,680 3,097,31 2 I ,268,45 •a,~;fis~7i(' 1,317,381 4,484,440 12461,324' :330,000 2,134,484 388,134 1 56;0851 374 ,0061 10,545,85'2 870,827 337,097 • 4,01 C 1,211,946 17,757,792 780,651 1,492,205 ?,973,38p, Total Net Rev. 57,360,694117,277,4 5 0 1 13,83 1,1131 1141 6,200 le , tpd ; Ti ie k id tag, vsf 'WI igri le 'LI IA